Recruits is a brutal fast paced top down shooter that puts the lives of countless amounts of soldiers in your command. Lead your men to victory and see them progress through the ranks, show them defeat and they will be lost forever.

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What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“We released our Pre-Alpha over a year ago, we got great feedback and now need to reach out to more players! With Steam we can the the suggestions and feedback of a larger player base and really create a game everyone can enjoy.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We do not know how long we will be in early access, you hope to bring the game to a very high quality during early access with your help and support.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The full version will have much more content, additional missions, new vehicles, multiple enemies, etc. We also expect to get feedback from Early Access to further develop what you want in the game.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“At the moment, the game features the core mechanics that will be present in the game. Both Single Player and Multiplayer are available in basic form so that the community can give us further feedback on what areas to focus on.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Buying the game in Early Access means that you are giving us your money for a half finished game. We understand this and that is why the Early Access price is slightly less than the full priced game as extra incentive to purchase Recruits early and help us out with development.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We would like players to give us feedback of Recruits via our forums, comments, and reviews. We will read all of these and take them on board with our development of the game.”

Reviews

About This Game

Recruits is a brutal fast paced top down shooter that puts the lives of countless amounts of soldiers in your command. Lead your men to victory and see them progress through the ranks, show them defeat and they will be lost forever.

Your role as a commander puts you in charge of managing a platoon of soldiers during the war. Take men into battle one squad at a time to accomplish your missions, along the way gaining experience and respect that allows you to better equip and customize your soldiers.

Only by keeping your men alive, gaining medals and awards and defeating an overwhelming amount of enemies can you hope to be victorious during this time in history.

Recruits is in ALPHA, meaning that is is currently not finished. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME unless you are happy to contribute to the development and play it with bugs and issues. This game is on Steam so that it can reach a wider audience and players can help contribute to the active development of Recruits.

Current Features

General Gameplay – Full body dismemberment and gore, weather effects, physics and destruction and time of day lighting effects.

Overall Game Improvements – Bugs and fixes, along with making the game easier to play and understand for all users. This game is still being developed and will always be updated to improve the overall usability.

I have been a massive fan of top down shooters all my life and when I seen this and read the description and watched the trailer I thought to myself that I must have this game, I bought it as soon as it went on early access release on steam and instantly had problems with it, gameplay was stale and the AI are way to overpowered, it is not rewarding and just all around frustrating, the devs helped me when I first bought the game due to start up issues but I have since learned they have abandoned the game, it is unplayable and not fun. Do not buy, should not be on the steam market anymore, even if it was free you would be better off staying away.

This game could have been really good if the development would have continued. The devs have abandoned it however. There haven't been any updates in 5-6 months and the lead programmer left to pursue another job. Shame ... another black eye on early access.

Devs never tell community what they are doing, game stinks to play, Multiplayer wont work, and there are 5 test missions that are boring as hell, dont waste money here on this.... they ban you if you say "the game is dead"

I own this game for about one year now (Desura). I still haven't played it much but I am happy to support the dev-team as this game might, and hopefully will be a great one. I am not sure if I would recommend it in it's current state as it's still in relatively early state. If you keep that in mind then go on, of course!

I just hope the devs would give a bit more frequently feedback and rework the blood-terrible character animations which they are aware of heh :D

Good luck!

EDIT (November, 30 2014): I finally changed my review to negative (I will change it back one day... hopefully). The coder left the boat to work for an other AAA game. So for now the project is frozen. The project leader didn't say anything in a while about if he'll continue working on the game or not. I have a bad feeling about this but hope dies last!For now it's a matter of gambling. You *might* waste your money on this as the future of the project is unsure.

I've sat down and played this well over 20 times and can't seem to do it for more than 10 minutes at a time.

This game looks extremely promising at first glance. It can be an O.K. experience if you take 1 or 2 squad members ALONE on a single mission and try to ninja them through by using the physics engine against the enemy. You cannot really play this game to an extent that seems rewarding or fun..yet.. Granted it is in Alpha...

The real reason I cannot recommend this game is because along with all of the problems it has and lack of content- Overall the developers do not release updates often and their own status within the community is taking the hit.

I have lost trust in these developers until steady updates start again. They were doing well about 6 months ago. Too bad.

Played it during alpha test and been following the development of the game and i must say it's looking really good! Developers are doing an incredible job , the gameplay seems so good and we finally get a good top down shooter with a multiplayer component! Also the art in the game is amazing , the models are looking really good and the lighting is perfect! Good job guys keep the good work up! All the best.